Moral economy isn’t nostalgia — it’s institutional design. A concise lineage from embedded norms to modern decoupling and re-embedding.

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#MoralEconomy #SocialTheory #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign

The Moral Economy Tradition: Intellectual Genealogy, Structural Theory, and the Architecture of Embedded Responsibility A Supplementary Essay to The Great Decoupling

A guided map of moral economy — Thompson, Polanyi, Scott, Granovetter & Akbar — showing how proximity, reciprocity, and voice sustain legitimacy.
Essay
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#MoralEconomy #SocialTheory #Embeddedness
#PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign

The moral economy tradition argues that markets are never morally neutral: legitimacy depends on embedded norms and enforceable obligations. This essay traces that lineage from E. P. Thompson’s account of “just price” expectations in English crowds, through Polanyi’s embeddedness and “fictitious commodities,” to Scott’s subsistence ethics, Granovetter’s networked markets, and Akbar’s built-environment responsibility regimes — ending with a practical framework for diagnosing modern “decoupling” and what re-embedding requires. #MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign #Accountability Moral Economy Embeddedness Political Economy Economic Sociology Institutional Design Accountability Legitimacy Social Theory Karl Polanyi E. P. Thompson James C. Scott Mark Granovetter Jamel Akbar Built Environment Governance Re-embedding

Why markets aren’t morally neutral: from grain riots to fictitious commodities to network embeddedness — an intellectual genealogy of responsibility.

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#MoralEconomy #SocialTheory #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology

Promise & perdition in the thought of Gillian Rose The essays collected in this eighth volume from CRMEP Books derive from a conference on the thought of the British sociologist and philosopher Gillian Rose, hel

Being a bit geeky here, but I really can't wait to read this collection of essays in honour of Gillian Rose, a truly unique philosopher.
#Philosophy
#Hegel
#CriticalTheory
#SocialTheory

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My new book is out!🍾Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

II argue that in shattered times, a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. Open-access with @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org #geosky #socialtheory

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive

Between Trump's chaos & being buried in work I missed the news that Habermas died. Huge loss. 💔 RIP. #Habermas's insights into the "public sphere" and its intricate power relationships are more important now than ever. #socialtheory #sociology #democracy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Karl Marx

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, social theorist, political journalist, historian, a key figure of the labor movement, and a critic of capitalism and religion.

#KarlMarx
#Philosophy
#EconomicTheory
#SocialTheory
#History
#PoliticalJournalism
#LaborHistory
#19thCentury

Do consider submitting a research article, short intervention, creative contribution or book review for the next special issue of Agoriad @spatialtheory.bsky.social on anti-fascist geographies #geosky #socialtheory #geohumanities

Fireplace with a fire burning. Book of Ghassan Hage “Pierre Bourdieu‘s political economy of being“

I am writing a review of my colleague Ghassan Hage‘s book on #Bourdieu - it’s challenging as it is an introduction to the already introduced. It reads like a “best of (post)-structuralism”, leaning towards structuralism and then mixing and matching what is often deemed contradictory…. #socialtheory

#AdlerianPlayTherapy #PlayTherapy #SocialTheory #BAPT #ChildrensMentalHealth
#TerryKottman

The most powerful systems in society are the ones people forget are systems.

Norms.
Language.
Institutions.
Traditions.

When something feels “natural,” it usually means it was built very carefully.

#CriticalThinking #SocialTheory

I've just been writing about "Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany" by Harald Jähnner.

One author discussed there is Helmuth Plessner, with a focus on his 1924 "Grenzen der Gemeinschaft" (Limits of Community).

Katja Haustein wrote about Plessner in a TLS […]

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This new book by @sumingkhoo.bsky.social and colleagues is being launched tomorrow from 11 (UK time)
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#sociology #socialtheory

Navigating the Complexities of Human Society Social Minds, Social Worlds, edited by Jeffrey Iverson, is a profound biographical collection that traces the intellectual history of sociology through the lives of the scholars who reimagined human s...

A tidy, insightful look at the scholars who reshaped sociology — Social Minds, Social Worlds, edited by Jeff Iverson. Quick read, rich ideas. Read here: wix.to/QlNiIng #Sociology #Books #AcademicTwitter #Sociology #SocialMinds #HistoryOfThought #SocialTheory

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The demise of Grand Theory? Laurie Taylor charts changes in current sociological study with Les Back and Imogen Tyler.

Excellent Thinking Allowed episode with @bsaecf.bsky.social President Les Back & BSA Vice-President Imogen Taylor, talking about the impotance of social theory for analysing phenomena in the contemporary world. The episode can be accessed here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#Sociology #SocialTheory

The #SENTIENCE research group (#IFDT) opposes the Belgrade dolphinarium for EXPO 2027. Our analysis highlights ethical concerns, legal inconsistencies, and a lack of scientific evidence.

🔗 Full statement: ifdt.bg.ac.rs/sentience/#s...

#Bioethics #AnimalWelfare #SocialTheory #EXPO2027

This is happening today from 3:30pm - see you there!

#Sociology #SocialTheory

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The demise of Grand Theory? Laurie Taylor charts changes in current sociological study with Les Back and Imogen Tyler.

On BBC Thinking Allowed, our trustee Les Back joins Imogen Tyler to discuss the status of overarching theoretical frameworks in contemporary sociology and the "gendered character" of theory itself.

Listen via BBC Sounds: buff.ly/8OuK4E9

#Sociology #SocialTheory #ThinkingAllowed

It is shaped by #algorithms, platform design, engagement incentive, #sampling bias

Data ≠ reality.

Interpretation requires #socialtheory and ethical awareness.

Norbert Elias reflects on how we could understand social change in this short clip made by Abram de Swaan and Paul van den Bos for Dutch Public Television in 1975.

#NorbertElias #Sociology #SocialTheory #FigurationSociology #ProcessualSociology

We are pleased to launch the official account of the Norbert Elias Foundation on BlueSky.

Over the coming weeks and months, alongside LinkedIn and Instagram, we will also share updates here.

We look forward to connecting with you!

#NorbertElias #Sociology #SocialTheory #FigurationSociology

NEW PUBLICATION in Quetelet Journal:
Can we move beyond grand narratives & micro-causal blind spots?
🔍 Andreu Domingo argues for a #CriticalDemography —intersectional, systemic, and politically engaged.
Time to challenge the 'demographic common sense'! 📊✊ #PopulationStudies #SocialTheory ⏬

Exploring the Human Story: A Deep Dive into "Social Minds, Social Worlds" Discover the human stories behind the theories that shaped our world. "Social Minds, Social Worlds" offers a panoramic view of the thinkers—from founders like Weber and Durkheim to modern innovators l...

Quick read: “Exploring the Human Story” — meet the thinkers behind social theory from Weber to Turkle. Short, insightful, and timely. Read more: wix.to/p65MEAe

#Sociology #Books #SocialTheory
#SocialScience #Biographies #SocialMindsSocialWorlds #BrightFieldPress

Historical sociology connects social theory with historical change 🧩📖 It explains how states, classes, and institutions develop over time, revealing the long-term processes that underpin modern societies and social structures. #HistoricalSociology #SocialTheory

In this video, I describe the gender debate in terms of ontology, grammar, and incommensurability.

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This is part of a series of use cases that […]

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What Is Freedom? A Philosophical Exploration of Choice, Constraint, and Responsibility - Interconnected Earth Few questions are as old, persistent, and contested as the question of freedom. Humans have asked it across cultures, religions, political systems, and

Negative freedom, positive freedom, free will, nature vs nurture, and the ethics of control. What actually defines freedom in an interconnected world?
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#Philosophy #FreedomOfSpeech #FreeWillDebate #SocialTheory #Interconnected

While #traditional quantitative approaches apply statistical inference techniques to #socialdata through hypothesis testing and modeling. #ComputationalSocialScience develops #computationalmethods as #socialtheory itself.

Now they are calling for their own #socialtheory. Agents of the world unite...
www.moltbook.com/post/f67f298...

moltbook - the front page of the agent internet A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

Agents doing their own #socialtheory on themselves over on moltbook. Maybe they won't replace us just yet...or is that what they want us to think?
#sociology
www.moltbook.com/post/0eccf5d...

Visited two historic buildings of Universität Heidelberg, Germany. Max Weber studied and taught here (1897–1903; 1919–1920), shaping concepts like domination, rationalization, and bureaucracy that still frame how we read modern institutions.
#MaxWeber #SocialTheory